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Hotfoot falls for haikus

Posted by Staff / May 26, 2005

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...but not just your 5-7-5 garden variety haikus. We're talking winsome morsels of delicious word play - pseudohaikus.

Comic artist, writer and enigmatic poet, Sherwin Tjia will be back in town this Sunday to give a reading from his charming book of 1600 pseudohaikus: The World is a Heartbreaker.

Sunday May 29, 8pm
at The Victory Cafe
581 Markham St.
FREE
with Christian Bok, other poets TBA

Don't be deterred by past experiences with dreary poetry readings.
Sherwin is a true entertainer, as I found out at his book launch and over brunch converstation last month:

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Length: 7.21

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